Taekwindow / News: Recent posts

Development of Taekwindow has moved from Subversion to Git, and from SourceForge to GitHub. The new, and hopefully permanent, project website is at http://taekwindow.net/.

The issue tracker has been migrated to GitHub as well, and can be found at https://github.com/ttencate/taekwindow/issues.

This is the last news item that will be published on SourceForge. If you're receiving this news through a feed reader, you'll need to update your reader to point to http://taekwindow.net/atom.xml -- sorry about the inconvenience.

The new version allows you to store your preferences in an INI file alongside the program itself, so that you can put both on a USB stick and use Taekwindow wherever you go.

Taekwindow is a simple, lightweight and free Windows program that allows you to move and resize windows by dragging them with the Alt key, similar to many X11 window managers.

For more information, and for downloading the program, visit: ... read more

Many things were changed under the hood, which allows Taekwindow to work on both 32-bits and 64-bits platforms. It is now also fully compatible with Windows 7. Furthermore, the .NET platform is no longer required. Finally, some annoying bugs were fixed in this version.

Taekwindow is a simple, lightweight and free Windows program that allows you to move and resize windows by dragging them with the Alt key, similar to many X11 window managers.... read more

Annoyed that Taekwindow wouldn't work with Google Talk, Google Chrome, Microsoft Office or mIRC? With this new release, those problems belong to the past!

Taekwindow is a simple, lightweight program that allows you to manipulate floating windows in Microsoft Windows very efficiently using the Alt key, in a way similar to many X11 window managers.

For more information, and for downloading the program, visit: ... read more

In the new version, maximized windows can be easily moved across multiple monitors. Also, scroll wheel behaviour is improved.

Taekwindow is a simple, lightweight program that allows you to manipulate floating windows in Microsoft Windows very efficiently using the Alt key, in a way similar to many X11 window managers.

For more information, and for downloading the program, visit:

http://taekwindow.sf.net/

The new version contains a shiny new system tray icon to control the program. Also, it is now possible to push windows to the background.

Taekwindow is a simple, lightweight program that allows you to manipulate floating windows in Microsoft Windows very efficiently using the Alt key, in a way similar to many X11 window managers.

For more information, and for downloading the program, visit:

http://taekwindow.sf.net/

The new release of Taekwindow fixes some open bugs, and should be more reliable overall. If any problems occur that are not mentioned in the bug tracker, a bug report would be appreciated!

Taekwindow is a simple, lightweight program that allows you to manipulate floating windows in Microsoft Windows very efficiently using the Alt key, in a way similar to many X11 window managers.

For more information, and for downloading the program, visit: ... read more

The new release of Taekwindow features a configuration tool, which can be used to bind the program to only the left or right Alt key, to customize the mouse buttons used, and to configure resizing behaviour.

Taekwindow is a simple, lightweight program that allows you to manipulate floating windows in Microsoft Windows very efficiently using the Alt key, in a way similar to many X11 window managers.... read more

A new minor version of Taekwindow was released today. It now resizes windows at the edge or corner that is closest to the mouse cursor, instead of always using the bottom right corner. This implements the feature request at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1632182&group_id=185457&atid=913356

Taekwindow is a simple, lightweight program that allows you to manipulate floating windows in Microsoft Windows very efficiently using the Alt key, in a way similar to many X11 window managers.... read more

The first version (0.1) of Taekwindow was released under a modified BSD license. Taekwindow is a simple, lightweight program that allows you to manipulate floating windows in Microsoft Windows very efficiently using the Alt key, in a way similar to many X11 window managers.

Taekwindow allows you to do the following:
- move windows by grabbing them anywhere (not just the title bar) while holding the Alt key, and then dragging with the left mouse button;
- resize windows by grabbing them anywhere (not just the tiny little border) while holding the Alt key, and then dragging with the right mouse button.... read more